[IAEP] Sugar evaluation and impact

Benjamin M. Schwartz bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu
Sun Sep 20 22:38:20 EDT 2009


Yamandu Ploskonka wrote:
> It's so funny, this thing about Sugar and the XO being for elementary 
> children, and then we go around serependitiously messing things up. 
> In Bolivia Primary goes up to 8th grade...  So it's OK to use them for 
> 8th grade there and not elsewhere?

Around OLPC, we tended to say things like "ages 6 to 16".  I think that's
pretty reasonable, although Sugar has done well for ages as low as 3, and
is certainly also useful for adults for many purposes, though perhaps not
all purposes.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Our_market#Child_is_a_nebulous_term.3B_what_is_the_exact_age_range_you_are_targeting.3F

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